Top 5 Payments Startup Investors in Bangladesh in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 A list of 5 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Payments startups based in Bangladesh. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Payments companies from Bangladesh. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 Payments Startup Investors in Bangladesh in January 2025

Investor	Payments Bangladesh investments
Battery Road Digital Holdings	2
Mohammad Maaz	1
Openspace	1
RC Ventures	1
Gojek	1

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Battery Road Digital Holdings is a venture capital and private equity firm that focuses on frontier and emerging markets.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Transportation, Payments
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Singapore, Egypt, India

Portfolio highlights

zypl.ai — zypl.ai applies 'no data' AI at scale to advance financial inclusion in emerging and frontier markets. Our SaaS solution enables banks and microfinance organizations to instantly and accurate underwrite loans, both offline and digitally, to consumers with limited or no credit history.zypl's proprietary approach includes training AImodels on synthetically generated data with simulation of 'black swan' conditions, providing stable and adaptable SaaS in spite of macro volatility in developing markets. Apart from analyzing traditional variables such as social, demographic, and professional background of clients, our SaaS reviews device metadata, psychometrics, web trace, and macroeconomic factors to arrive at credit decisions.In the process, we fully customize AI models to risk appetite of each individual enterprise partner with the goal of reflecting their competitive market advantages. Additionally, we offer complete flexibility on mode of integration through either cloud or on-premise deployment based on enterprise preference. We only deploy explainable AI models with embedded 'weight-of-evidence' interpretation of each decision made by the software, complying with emerging regulatory requirements on credit scoring.Having launched our beta last year, we have scaled presence to 10 enterprise clients in 4 markets across Central Asia. In this time, we have underwritten >$9 million in consumer and small business (services, trade, agriculture) loans to over 12 thousand consumers with staggeringly low 0.7% portfolio-at-risk rate. Since booking first revenue earlier this year, we have surpassed 25% compounded monthly growth rate and reached financial break-even this month.As a complement to credit scoring, our product team has ventured into churn prediction in telecom sector through partnerships with 3 leading telcos in Central Asia. Our rapid product iteration and development is a result of an AI Academy that we have launched to nurture talent internally.zypl.ai was ideated at Stanford University's Startup Garage and recently completed the Silkway Accelerator by Google for Startups and Astana Hub. Our startup was launched with a grant from the Islamic Development Bank as part of the Transform Fund. With our pre-seed capital raise, we plan on globalizing our AI SaaS solution by expanding to new markets in MENA, Southeast Asia, and Eastern Europe.
AwanTunai — AwanTunai seek to reinforce Indonesian needs and productivity by providing digital loan for a better financial freedom and capability to micro-entrepreneurs
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Mohammad Maaz

Investment focus

Payments, Information Technology, EdTech
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Bangladesh, Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bonik — Bonik empowers small businesses with an easy-to-use app to create and run e-commerce stores independently. Download Bonik App and create your own online store for free today!
Travela — Travela is an accommodation-sharing platform.
Interactive Cares — Interactive Cares is a one stop virtual Edtech Platform for creating employability to 2.7 Million unemployed youth in Bangladesh & make them skilled through its integrated digital learning. Interactive Cares is working to create 1 M job placement by end of 2026.

Openspace Ventures is a leading venture capital firm finding and backing Southeast Asian companies creating a transformative impact where tech meets life.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

CopilotIQ — CopilotIQ is revolutionizing remote health monitoring. Our program collects 1,000 times more readings than traditional methods. Talk to a nurse today.
Broom — Broom ID memberikan pelayanan terbaik untuk pengalaman Jual Beli Mobil Bekas Anda, banyak pilihan Variasi merek dan tipe Mobil Bekas yang berlimpah
Ampd Energy — Ampd Energy is driven by its vision for an emission-free future for construction. Ampd Energy pioneered the use of battery energy storage systems (BESS) in urban construction with its flagship product, the "Enertainer". The Enertainer electrifies construction sites and provides clean, quiet and fully automated energy delivery, allowingconstruction to transition away from fossil fuels.Compared to fossil fuel generators, the Enertainer: reduces carbon footprint by up to 85%; is 32x quieter; emits zero diesel fumes; eliminates diesel handling and usage risks; has zero maintenance and refuelling downtime; and is economically justified for operational cost savings. As an IoT enabled device, the Enertainer can be remotely monitored anytime and anywhere, providing a deep level of data-transparency for data-driven decision making.Website: www.ampd.energy LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/ampd_energy

RC Ventures is a seed and venture capital firm that invests in early stage companies in Bangladesh and neighboring high growth emerging markets. Our team consists of frontier investors, entrepreneurs, and corporate advisors with deep experience and personal ties in our target markets.

Investment focus

Logistics, E-Commerce, iOS
Seed, Pre-Seed
Bangladesh

Portfolio highlights

KajKey —
Truck Lagbe — Truck Lagbe network is the first and the largest online platform in Bangladesh. In this app based truck rental service you can hire trucks & pickups in a minutes.
Basis Climate — Basis Climate is a market maker for transferable clean energy tax credits with over $250M of transactions to date.

Gojek is an app that providing a variety of services from payments, food delivery, transportation, and logistics.The app is used for food ordering, commuting, digital payments, shopping, hyper-local delivery, getting a massage, and other services. It aims to create a positive socio-economic impact on customers, driver-partners, business, andMSMEs. Gojek is backed by investors including Google, Facebook, PayPal, Sequoia Capital, and Tencent Holdings.The company was founded in 2009 in Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia by Kevin Aluwi, Nadiem Makarim, and Michaelangelo Moran.